Publishing Error Oracle Service Bus – Workshop IDE

I’ve been working on a SOA project for a few days, and gradually adding functionality. Suddenly Workshop failed to publish with the exception below.

org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Error publishing new container for: Dev at com.bea.alsb.server.publish.ALSBPublishOperation.publishNewContainer(ALSBPublishOperation.java:302) at com.bea.alsb.server.publish.ALSBPublishOperation.execute(ALSBPublishOperation.java:150) at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.WeblogicServerBehaviour.performTasks(WeblogicServerBehaviour.java:1189) at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.WeblogicServerBehaviour.publishToServer(WeblogicServerBehaviour.java:744) at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.WeblogicServerBehaviour.publishOnce(WeblogicServerBehaviour.java:607) at com.bea.workshop.wls.core.server.internal.WeblogicServerBehaviour.publish(WeblogicServerBehaviour.java:503) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.doPublish(Server.java:887) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.publish(Server.java:874) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.PublishServerJob.run(PublishServerJob.java:72) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55) org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException[4000]: com.bea.alsb.core.repositories.RepositoryException: Socket closed at com.bea.alsb.core.internal.repositories.jar.AbstractConfigRepository.init(AbstractConfigRepository.java:122) at com.bea.alsb.core.internal.repositories.jar.ServerConfigRepository.<init>(ServerConfigRepository.java:102) at com.bea.alsb.core.internal.repositories.RepositoryService.create(RepositoryService.java:155) at com.bea.alsb.server.publish.ALSBPublishOperation.publishNewContainer(ALSBPublishOperation.java:295)

The key part of this exception is highlighted in red.

I did raise a support case, but in the meantime, decompiled some of the classes in the stack trace to get a clue as to what was going on.

All it was doing was creating a publish session, uploading the file and publishing, so why the Socket Closed exception.

Something made me think of the maximum message size for WebLogic which by default is 10,000,000 bytes or 10MB. My project had grown to 12MB due to the addition of a couple of jar files.